.. I was little worried about my next morning as I was supposed to go to Norwich to celebrate Diwali celebrations with other TCS associates. The worry was to wake up so early. Its been years I haven't seen the faces of morning winds. It was almost midnight when I reached home and could not resist my sleep. I just devoured whatever I had in the kitchen and set two alarms for half past five hours in the morning and went to sound sleep. It seems like I was dreaming, when my sleep was terribly disturbed by two alarms pounding at the same time as if some fire has been caught. I gave them a hit to keep them shut and went directly to bathroom.
I sat under the showers for almost half an hour and realising I have a train to catch, I hurried a bit and put on some clothes to save myself from the morning chilling wind. It was morning 7 when I reached the bus station and I was supposed to meet my project mate, Janani and her friend Anjana.But, I could see no familiar faces in the bus stop. But as I started looking for familiar faces all across the street, somewhere in the corner of street two images caught my sight. We together took a bus to train station. We reached station at 7:30 and our train was scheduled at 8. So we sat comfortably and had rigorous chat about everything. Exactly at 8:08, the train pulled to station and we boarded the train. The train was almost empty so we had lots of option over which seat to sit. We took the most comfortable two seaters facing each other and continued our talk. Due to some engineering works the train services were suspended from Ipswich but replacement bus services were operating to serve the travellers. The weather was calm and it was so refreshing to travel as wind was blowing from north without any rain. We boarded the bus in Ipswich and to give some competition to perfect weather, I plugged my iPod on to my ears to listen to some perfect music. I felt like, nothing in my life matched this ever before. It was almost half past ten when we reached Norwich, and we started walking towards King's Centre, venue of our Diwali Celebrations.
TCS associates had practised a whole bunch of events to perform on that day. Although all events were performed to its best, the sound system was very poor and audience was kept in desperate patience. Moreover many mothers had dressed up their children for this occasion but the children gave last minute jolt to their mothers as they did not turn up on to stage. If they turn up they ran from it, just like they are facing a wild animal.
Few skits and dance performances followed. I felt like if they could have set up some better micro-phones, this function could have been more enjoyable. In between we had some good Indian food and took snaps of ourselves. After lunch, housie tickets were distributed and I started scribbling my tickets biting my nails. Without a clue, my third row was filled and I cried 'BINGO'. I ran towards the stage where few organiser's verified my ticket and gave my prize. My demeanour must have told others that this is the first housie win I ever won in my life. We just dragged the time till 6 in the evening and boarded the bus again to reach London....
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